notakio

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by notakio 26d ago
I think it maps to the proclivity of the engineer to want to understand the multiple layers that apply to whatever they're working on. The more curious, the more likely that engineer is to gain a better understanding of the whole, and
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by notakio 1mo ago
When I worked at a particular fruit company in Cupertino, my boss had been asked repeatedly by the developer teams to provide a tour of the data center we'd recently finished building out, which housed the servers their code ran on. He
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by notakio 1y ago
I simply meant that if you monitor a given application using on-system network tools, you quickly get an accurate idea of what/who that application talks to. And browsers are super-chatty to all sorts of destinations that are not immed
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by notakio 1y ago
Besides lsof and netstat?
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by notakio 1y ago
We're still good now.
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by notakio 1y ago
Whoops. I used hyperbole, and it went undetected. Here: s/the deciding factor/a deciding factor/g. We're good now.
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by notakio 1y ago
One should be wary of anyone selling you a solution to your problems they know nothing about. Naturally, the only way to be entirely secure is to shutdown all the applications and decommission all the computers, a solution which the busines
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by notakio 1y ago
If every car in your neighborhood that gets broken into is manufactured by a single manufacturer, it is in your interest in asking why that is, and perhaps considering that fact when shopping for a new car.
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by notakio 1y ago
Very curious. Just based on the incidents we see, and analyze over time, almost all of them are compromised Windows systems. When I say "almost", I'll provide these stats: ~4500 Windows incidents over 5 years, vs. two Linux i
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by notakio 1y ago
No, LetsEncrypt was not an EFF project to begin with. Look, it works how it's documented to work. If you wish it worked some other way, to solve your particular suggested workflow, you're likely free to fork it and make it work th
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by notakio 1y ago
No, it's not the LetsEncrypt people who make certbot. Certbot is an EFF project, managed by separate people. Additionally, most of the DNS implementations will require the use of a specific plug-in/library for your selected DNS pl
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by notakio 1y ago
Regarding "the DNS record they had you add to begin with is still there", it generally isn't. Part of the automation process for certbot using the DNS-01 challenge is the removal of the DNS record, following successful valida
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by notakio 2y ago
This is compounded by their propensity to rename everything at periodic intervals.
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by notakio 3y ago
For the Microsoft.com domain, proper, there seem to be no existing CAA rules, allowing each and every CA on earth to issue certificates based on whatever criteria the CA requires. What could possibly go wrong with that approach?
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by notakio 3y ago
I have not. I'm afraid I am a gaming luddite, though for no particular reason other than having a lengthy list of mental "to-dos" in front of it.
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by notakio 3y ago
The article contains solid advice that certainly transcends coding, alone; in my free time, I try to essentially "find work". Sometimes that work consists of writing software to solve weird little home "problems" that ma
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by notakio 3y ago
And if you're the kind of person that travels in one of these, you likely also have a few additional vehicles in front of and behind your vehicle filled with highly-paid professionals ready and willing to carry you the last mile if you
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by notakio 3y ago
I was surprised to not see IR beacons on LEO units. In military operations with air surveillance, individuals/vehicles often use IR flashing and IR reflection to mark themselves to air assets. If MPD has the money for 1) an air surveil
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by notakio 3y ago
Agreed. I invariably lose hours to Folklore every time I end up there. I previously worked for an original Mac team engineer, and he had some fascinating stories, but Hertzfeld's writing allows me to revisit those and so many more tale
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by notakio 3y ago
I vote for users. I'll stay down here with compute, I know how this ends.
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by notakio 3y ago
`brctl status` will return sync status data without requiring Finder. It isn't pretty, but it's usable via stdout and whatever tooling you'd want to use.
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by notakio 3y ago
SFPD won't do anything about property crimes, to include vandalism, other than to take a preliminary report, on a schedule determined by the department (eg: you call them, they show up 8-12 hours later, uninterested in taking your repo
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by notakio 3y ago
I have no dog in this fight. If anything, my final takeaway was that my impressions were entirely anecdotal and/or experiential, and not based on any sort of legitimate analysis with useful data. It should probably be done, but my poin
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by notakio 3y ago
I moved out of SF ~2018, and only recently revisited, and the increased frequency with which I saw robocars was immediately concerning to me, largely based on the potential for things to go wrong, and with just how frequent they were. My se
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by notakio 3y ago
In this case (Lejeune vs Pendleton), there would likely not be a substantial socioeconomic difference between the collective backgrounds of Marines who did basic training at either one. But comparing either camp to OCS at Quantico would, in
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by notakio 4y ago
Via a link posted here, perhaps. A "soft" DDOS, if you will.
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by notakio 4y ago
Yep. Most electric companies will be more than delighted to run a second line to your home, as they then get to collect those sweet installation costs from you. So if you're willing to pay, they're probably more than happy to let
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by notakio 4y ago
I've used the Pi (both a 3 and 4) as a temporary server when moving (read: leave the old server up at home until move-day, while placing a Pi in the new home, configured to take the www load normally pointed at my old server. I'm
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by notakio 4y ago
They are also historically credited with inventing usury, so presumably yes. This describes the situation fairly accurately: https://thetemplarknight.com/2010/12/22/templar-usury/ Essentially, the Roman
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by notakio 4y ago
I only ever got to play with BeOS on a Daystar Digital quad-PPC machine I "inherited" from work when it got replaced with more Mac hardware. I've always wanted to pick up an original BeBox, but even in the heyday of "che

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